potent
powerful; possessing power; effective.
Other meanings
Possessing authority or influence; persuasive, convincing.
Possessing strong physical or chemical properties.
Synonyms
- powerful
Related words
- biopotent
- bipotent
- immunopotent
- monopotent
- nullipotent
- overpotent
- polypotent
- potentiary
- potentization
- potently
- potentness
- repotentise
Word history
From Latin "potens" (potens, potentis).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “potent” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.